Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Zinnia elegans
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Read more about Zinnia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Zinnia violacea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Zinnia elegans
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Zinnia violacea
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Zinnia violacea
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Zinnia elegans
COMMON NAME:
Garden Zinnia, Elegant Zinnia
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Tracey Slotta / USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / ARS Systematic Botany & Mycology Lab pnd_ziel_002_lhp
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Achenes winged, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Zinnia elegans
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Zinnia violacea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Zinnia elegans
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Zinnia violacea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Zinnia violacea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Zinnia elegans
4896
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Disturbed areas, commonly cultivated, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: New World tropics
Waif(s)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite or subopposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Rays: usually red (white, yellow, or purple in cultivars)
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
FRUIT:
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